Pediatric Chronic Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
Pediatric chronic pain is a prevalent condition with manifold treatment options. However, knowledge of targeted dissemination of intervention research findings is currently lacking. The aim of this project is to determine satisfaction with current knowledge transfer from science to clinical practice amongst health care professionals, adolescents with CPP and their parents and to understand what treatment options have been offered to patients in Swiss pain centers Three focus groups, one with health care professionals, one with adolescent patients, and one with their parents, will be conducted to determine how the dissemination of scientific evidence to clinical practice can be improved and what hurdles exists when gathering information about pain interventions. In addition, patients will be asked about the treatment options offered to them and health care professionals about which treatments they routinely prescribe and why.
Interventions
Focus Group
Sponsors
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
13 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Adolescent group: * Adolescents suffering from chronic pain (i.e., persistent or recurrent pain for three months or more) * Able to read and speak German Parent group: * Parents of an adolescent with chronic pain * Able to read and speak German Health care professionals group: * Health care professional working with adolescents with chronic pain * Able to read and speak German
Exclusion criteria
* no chronic pain or experience with chronic pain
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Information seeking behavior | immediattely after the focus group | Participants' key messages will be reduced to major subjects by means of content analysis. The goal is to understand participants' information seeking behavior with regard to chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed